Seoul
- proper noun
- /soʊl/
- I live in Seoul, the capital city of South Korea.
- Seoul, Korea
- Seoul, South Korea
- Seoul, the capital
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Watch on YouTubeWhen alumni gather by the hundreds to greet me in Seoul, London, Rio, or Mumbai.
- When alumni gather by the hundreds to greet me in Seoul, London, Rio, or Mumbai.
- Loved, loved, loved Seoul, which is is where I spent the time.
- And for this book I have just done field work in New York, Seoul, Jeju, Los Angeles and London.
- And this is one night we were in Seoul, South Korea.
- It officially feels like autumn here in Seoul.
- I did Emily, who murdered Ollie and Jessica in Seoul.
- She was Hee Jung Kim and she was from Korea and she came from Seoul to go to Graduate School.
- I'm Gene Epstein, director of the Seoul Forum.
- And, you know, she's born in Seoul and so she grew up in a house church her whole life.
- No one's lining up for vaccines from Russia or China or flying to Dubai or to Seoul for AI software.
Examples
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I live in Seoul and I make content about living in Korea.
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When I came to Seoul to buy back my house, I brought W3,500,000 at that time.
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We're here to grow in Seoul and to grow each other in Seoul.
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You can see all of Seoul from up here.
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Her husband came to Seoul to find a job.
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This next call comes all the way from Seoul, South Korea.
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When are you coming back to Seoul?
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We're flying with Singapore Airlines to Seoul, South Korea.
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And, you know, she's born in Seoul and so she grew up in a house church her whole life.
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Enduring trust between the international community and South Korea was instrumental to Seoul's development.
Academic text (2011)
Surface Forms
Etymology
Seoul comes from the Korean word 서울, which simply means 'capital' or 'capital city'. So the name itself tells you it is South Korea's main city.